On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:27, Russ Allbery wrote: > James Amundson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I can tell, it is impossible to get automake to work with > > pathnames containing spaces. The canonical example is > > ./configure --prefix="/c/Program Files" > > make install > > which will cause make to choke because install will be called with > > unquoted pathnames. I don't know if there are other examples -- I have > > never made it past this one. > > make uses a space as a separator, and getting it to accept spaces in file > names is extremely difficult or impossible depending on the version of > make that you're using. > It should also be noted that Libtool suffers heavily from this problem also. The shell uses spaces as separators, which means Libtool isn't even able to install to a directory containing a space:
dependency_libs="-L/mnt/Program Files/unix/lib -lfoo" comes out as three arguments, and quoting the -L argument doesn't actually solve that. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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